Factory, the San Francisco company that builds autonomous coding agents it calls Droids, has acquired Typedef, a seed-funded data infrastructure startup. Factory announced the deal on October 30, 2026, in a post on its website saying Typedef is joining the company to bring deeper data context to autonomous software engineering.
Neither company disclosed the price or whether it was paid in cash or stock. Dealroom, which reported the deal on November 1, also said terms were not disclosed. Typedef's website now carries a banner announcing that Factory has acquired it.
Typedef co-founders Yoni Michael and Kostas Pardalis are joining Factory with their team. Factory did not say how many people are moving over or whether Typedef's product will continue to be sold on its own.
What Typedef built
Typedef describes its product as a data context layer: a map of the definitions, pipelines, dashboards and systems on a company's data platform, compiled directly from code and kept up to date. The idea is that an AI agent, or an engineer, can see what depends on what before making a change.
On its website Typedef lists the uses it has in mind. These include showing every downstream report, metric and dashboard affected by a change to a staging model before a pull request lands, tracing a broken pipeline back to the upstream change that caused it, and working out why two systems report different numbers for the same metric. The company says that in its own tests across impact analysis, root-cause debugging and model refactoring, agents with its lineage context completed 82% of real-world data engineering tasks, compared with 46% for agents without it.
The product has moved since the company launched. When Typedef came out of stealth in June 2025, SiliconANGLE reported that it was building a data platform for large language model workloads, aimed at helping companies move AI pilots into production by handling issues such as token limits, context windows and data chunking.
“Factory is a place where founders can keep building like founders.”
Why Factory is buying
Factory's post set out the problem it wants Typedef to solve. As companies put Droids to work across their software, a change to a data model can spread through definitions, pipelines and dashboards, and without a clear view of those links it is harder to plan a migration, check a refactor or explain the result.
Factory said it provides the harness that lets Droids work inside a customer's own environment, while Typedef supplies the context layer. Together, it said, the two will give engineers clearer lineage and evidence when Droids plan migrations, debug pipelines and refactor data models.
The post also stressed a shared view that customers should keep control of their own infrastructure, and that AI should turn engineers into designers and operators of the systems that build software rather than replace them. Factory said data infrastructure is where this approach can come into focus, and that Typedef already hears from customers ready to work that way.
The founders and the funding
Michael previously co-founded Coolan, which used machine learning and infrastructure analytics to help companies improve data centre reliability. According to Factory, Coolan's technology ran on more than 100,000 servers before Salesforce acquired it in 2016. Michael then led infrastructure engineering teams at Salesforce and later at Tecton, a feature-store company.
Pardalis founded Blendo, a data integration tool that Factory says was used by more than 400 companies, and later led product at RudderStack and Starburst. Factory said the wider Typedef team has experience at Snowflake, Salesforce and Tecton, including building secure, customer-hosted systems.
Typedef raised a $5.5 million seed round in June 2025 led by Pear VC, with Verissimo Ventures, Monochrome Ventures, Tokyo Black and several unnamed angel investors taking part, according to SiliconANGLE. No later rounds have been reported.
About Factory
Factory was founded in 2023 by Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes and is based in San Francisco. It sells enterprises a governed, model-independent system in which Droids plan, build, validate and improve software inside each customer's infrastructure, policies and approved AI models.
The Typedef deal reflects a wider push among coding-agent makers to give their tools more information about the systems they work on, rather than relying only on the code in a single repository. Factory's post framed Typedef as a way to ground its agents in a customer's data, environment and tooling, where it argued most of the value sits.
